VR180 | L.A. Metro construction unearths thousands of ice age fossils beneath Los Angeles

It’s raining fossils 80 feet below Wilshire Boulevard as L.A. Metro continues its expansion of the Purple Line through Beverly Hills. Paleontologists have already found 2,000 ice age fossils in dirt dug by the new construction including a two-foot bison horn, a mammoth knuckle and a shin bone from an early camel ancestor.In this immersive VR 180 video, Metro paleontological monitor Bethany Ader takes you on a tour of a subway cavern 80 feet beneath the ground where the prehistoric bison horn was found. You’ll also visit with Dr. Ashley Ledger, a paleontologist at Cogstone Resource Management Lab in Riverside who is processing LA’s latest fossil discoveries.Ledger says the the Metro Purple Line expansion for a paleontologist is a “dream come true.”
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